Managing Information UT November 13-14, 2008 Web Hosting and Storage

Managing Information UT Overview The Campus Web Campus Web Vocabulary Web Site Guidelines and Policies Web Hosting and Storage Options Departmental and Organizational Options ITS Enterprise Web Services Future Directions

Managing Information UT The Campus Web Large – Millions of pages and hundreds of applications in utexas.edu domain. Diverse – Many audiences, media types, functions, publishers Decentralized – hundreds of campus Web servers Mission-critical – includes important applications as well as information resources Cross-campus – engages ITS but also OPA, campus departments and organizations, and other developers and publishers

Managing Information UT Campus Web Vocabulary Web Central – The University’s primary Web server - UT Direct – The University’s portal, with an emphasis on University business and administration –Registration –Paying Bills –Timesheets Webspace – Offers students, faculty, and staff 1 GB of space for Web publishing and file storage emergency.utexas.edu – Off-campus Web presence to be used in emergencies Blackboard Webmail

Managing Information UT Guidelines and Policies Web Guidelines are at Accessibility Privacy Security: Information Resources Use and Security Policy Acceptable Use –Copyright –Bandwidth Branding –Templates –OPA Visual Guidelines:

Managing Information UT Individual Web Publishing Policies ITS Acceptable Use –No commercial gain –No violation of copyright or other law or policy –Subject to resource limits –Considered ‘free speech’ Departmental options may be subject to additional policies

Managing Information UT Web Hosting and Storage Individual Web sites Departmental Web sites Instruction Research Support

Managing Information UT Individual Options Webspace –Free for students, faculty and staff –1 GB Individual UNIX-based publishing: UTS Individual Windows-based publishing: Austin Disk Services

Managing Information UT Departmental Web Sites Virtual Host Names UNIX and Windows environments SharePoint Oracle Universal Content Management System

Managing Information UT Web Resources for Faculty Instruction Blackboard CLIPs Departmental Options

Managing Information UT Web Technologies PHP Python Java Cold Fusion webAgent Content Management Systems Streaming Media – Helix Databases

Managing Information UT Web Central Architecture Clustered Solaris servers Shared Network Appliance storage Apache Web server PHP 5 Serves adminstrative departments, course Web sites, and student organization Web sites Publishing tools range from Dreamweaver and text editors to publishing systems like Drupal, Expression Engine and WordPress Other campus servers include IIS, Mac OS X/Apache, Linux

Managing Information UT Enterprise Web Services Content Management – OUCMS: Analytics – Urchin: Quality and Accessibility Testing – WebXM: Security Testing – AppScan Search – Google and htDig Streaming Video – Helix/RealServer Blogs – WordPress Mu Contracts – ITS can help with Web site development

Managing Information UT Future Directions The “cloud” Green IT Services Virtualization

Managing Information UT Saving Power and Space

Managing Information UT Virtual Servers

Managing Information UT Resources Web developers – Application developers – Contact s: